xamppLite - uninstall

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consigli1
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xamppLite - uninstall

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Does anyone use xamppLite for a server/php/mysql package on Windows?

How do you uninstall this mess? It doesnt have a windows uninstaller, and whenever I try to delete the directory structure, it always says that a few files are in use. I have tried a lot of options, including makeing sure all of the services associated with it are stopped. arghsdf.

XamppLite is terribly frustrating.

Thanks in advance for your help,
Mike
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Post by AKA Panama Jack »

If you think Xampp Lite is frustrating then you should never install any other server software on your computer because it is about the easiest package to use.

And from the sound of it you probably completely bypassed the xampp-control.exe when it came to starting and stopping xampp. Probably never read any of the instructions or just enough to get yourself in trouble. If you use the xampp-control.exe to start and stop everything including services, if you were silly enough to enable services. You shouldn't use services unless you want the apache and mysql server to start after every boot. If you manually changed things in the windows service manager you probably really hosed things.

And you get rid of it ( if you would have read the instructions) just delete the directory that contains xampp. That is how you uninstall it.

Sigh, no matter how easy someone can make something there is someone out there that can screw it up.
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Post by consigli1 »

strangely, I get along with the regular Xampp just fine.

The Lite version is giving me a headache.
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Post by consigli1 »

AKA Panama Jack wrote: 1. You shouldn't use services unless you want the apache and mysql server to start after every boot.

2. If you manually changed things in the windows service manager you probably really hosed things.

3. Sigh, no matter how easy someone can make something there is someone out there that can screw it up.
1) this is exactly what I wanted to do.

2) yes, I screwed up here, what steps should I take to fix this?

3) no need to flame me pal.
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Post by AKA Panama Jack »

Use xampp-control.exe to restart and then stop the services again. That should reinitialize the services properly and turn them off properly. You should then be able to delete the xampp directory.
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